Physical anthropology is a very vast subject; to cover it all adequately would take a work as large as the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and almost as many contributors to write it. In the present volume a modest attempt has been made to present only part of the subject-matter with which the science deals, and that, for the most part, in a general rather than a detailed manner. The author have, however, attempted to do more than merely introduce the reader to the ...
